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Latest News in Telecommunications

  • July 28, 2026

    Judge Calls Off IP Trial, Threatens Sanctions Against Apple

    A Texas federal judge has vacated an impending trial date for a patent infringement suit against Apple, saying he needed time to resolve outstanding jurisdictional issues, but ordered Apple to explain why it shouldn't be sanctioned for raising those issues so close to trial.

  • July 28, 2026

    Ex-Comcast Worker Says Pie 'Assaults' Punished Low Sales

    Comcast Xfinity is being sued by a former Connecticut employee who says his retail store manager repeatedly ordered colleagues to tie her lowest-performing salespersons to a chair and then "violently" hit them in the face with a cream pie, allegedly as a shaming procedure to drive increased sales.

  • July 28, 2026

    Ex-FCC Officials Call Agency's ABC Station Probe 'Retaliatory'

    Several former top officials at the Federal Communications Commission called on FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Tuesday to abandon an early review of eight Disney-owned ABC stations' licenses, calling the action a "grave violation" of federal law and free speech protections.

  • July 28, 2026

    Nielsen Says 2nd Circ. Ruling Makes Courts Price Regulators

    Nielsen has asked the Second Circuit to reconsider a ruling upholding an injunction in a case from Cumulus accusing it of tying sales of its national radio ratings data to its local offerings, telling the appeals court the ruling turns judges into price regulators.

  • July 27, 2026

    AT&T Technician In Ill. Sues For Pre-, Postshift Work Pay

    AT&T's Illinois unit was hit Monday with proposed class pay claims by a premises technician who says the telecommunications giant illegally fails to compensate premises technicians for duties they're required to complete as they prepare for and conclude their daily shifts. 

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  • U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
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